Re: Dancing with the Devil !!
Hi
Thank you for that brilliant post Cass.
I am not happy with Cameron and his Referendum, an awful lot of risk.
To my mind, what Cameron should have done is to form an alliance with the other EU States who are not happy with the EU in it's present form.
The EU is run by Germany and France for their own interests.
I seriously object to this.
The UK, with a strong and intelligent PM, could have made an alliance with those EU Countries who share our concerns.
We could have, and should have, arranged a simultaneous Referendum with all these Countries voting on the same day to go back to a simple Free Trade Area, no more Political Integration, a return of National Sovereignty, all the advantages, none of the disadvantages.
The current Migrant Crisis is an ideal time to do this, even Austria is turning it's back on Germany.
Poland is fighting EU interference in it's internal affairs, Hungary is voting against the EU proposals on immigration, the Middle European Countries are as one against admitting the Ukraine.
We could have won this, with no risk of an Economic downside.
Cameron is an idiot.
It is the Charge of the Light Brigade all over again.
Heroic but stupid.
The objective of the exercise is to win, to change a completely wasteful, self serving EU, run in the interests of France and Germany, at no cost to UK PLC.
I know, perhaps more than some of you, how the system operates, I was part of it for a time.
I know all about Brussels and the Eurocrats, the unelected Bureaucracy who run it for their own interests.
Yes, it is great jetting off to Rome Business Class, four star hotels and expenses, or going Eurostar once a week to Brussels, eating in some of the best restaurants, taxis everywhere and a daily expense allowance, tax free, irrespective of whether or not you spent it.
A tight fisted Northerner, I soon rebelled , the waste was enormous.
You should have seen the looks on their faces when I suggested that we could save a fortune just by video conferencing, I might as well have have stood up and peed on the floor in front of them, they were so horrified.
Out as soon as I could.
Cameron has played this all wrong, the EU should be dismantled in it's current form, but he should have dismantled it at no Financial Risk to the UK.
That is his job, we elected him to look after the UK.
He has totally failed to do this.